any of a kind of small animals, such as an ant, fly, beetle, having six legs and no backbone and a body divided into three parts
bug
Cases of word usage
1) a condition of being affected by particular foods, fur, insect stings etc (allergy)
2) a kind of small flying insect that makes honey and can sting (bee)
3) a kind of insect with hard, shiny wing-covers (beetle)
4) a small blood-sucking insect in dirty houses and beds (bug)
5) an insect with large, often colourful, wings (butterfly)
6) the form taken by an insect (e.g. a butterfly) between the time when it creeps or crows (as a larva) and the time when it flies (chrysalis)
7) an insect with transparent wings, the male making a high noise (cicada)
8) a kind of large, dark brown insect that comes out at night in kitchens and places where food is kept (cockroach)
9) a small, brown jumping insect which makes a shrill noise by rubbing its front wings together (cricket)
10) a kind of insect with a long body and two pairs of long wings (dragonfly)